On This Day: MMA’s biggest manager Ali Abdelaziz was pulled off a flight for treacherous connections to the Twin Tower attacks
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Abdelaziz was pulled form his flight headed to New York right n the day of the World Trade Center Attacks
Ali Abdelaziz has the biggest troupe of champions in MMA today. Managing former Champions like Khabib Nurmagomedov, Henry Cejudo, and Kamaru Usman, Ali has come a long way since he first entered the USA.
Abdelaziz was born in Egypt where he found that he had some passion for martial arts. While his early life is rather obscure, he came under the radar of the FBI and other intelligence agencies on 9/11. Ali originally boarded a flight headed from Cairo to New York the same day, that the two planes struck the Twin Towers with two additional planes being hijacked, one targeting the Pentagon and the other headed for the US Capitol Building.
Only one of the latter two planes would hit its target, although barely with the flight headed towards the Pentagon crashing in a field and causing only minor damage to the intelligence headquarters. The second, Flight 93 was headed for the White House or the US Capitol. The passengers realizing what had happened to the other planes decided to fight the highjackers and crashed the plane in an open field.
Ali Abdelaziz worked as an informant for the FBI and The NYPD
While most highjackers were from the Emirate of Saudi Arabia, at least one was from Egypt. This understandably led to some suspicion towards Ali who had conveniently booked a flight to New York the same day.
He would eventually be allowed into the US under suspicious circumstances and start his unsuccessful career in Colorado. Once it became clear to the FBI that Ali had some connections to the incidents at 9/11 regardless of how minor they were, he was offered amnesty if he worked as an agent for the US.
He was originally hired by the New York Police Department to spy on an armed group called Muslims of America, based in Islamberg on the outskirts of New York. The NYPD would later share him with the FBI who quickly terminated his services suspecting him to be a double agent.
After this Ali gave up his in-cage career as an executive and established dominance in MMA. While the stable houses many reputable names like Khabib, Kamaru, and Justin Gaethje, it is also famous for its fighter’s associations with a sanctioned war criminal, and the dictator of the republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.
Ali’s troubles were publicized by Conor McGregor during his rivalry with Khabib Nurmagomedov. McGregor openly talked about his alleged terrorist links at the press conference.
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